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41 " The Battle Creek, Michigan, headquarters of Kellogg’s looks like a spaceship built to look like a pyramid that was then hastily converted into a public library during a period of intergalactic peace. "
― B.J. Novak , One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
42 " The cute one?” “No, the other cute one.” “Oh, she’s cute too. "
43 " But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain. "
44 " Didn't they realize how much interesting shit there was to see and do in this world if you just woke up at a normal fucking time like a normal fucking person? "
45 " What’s the difference between this school and a happy retirement community?” The room was silent again. “The difference is ’rithmetic! A retired person living by the ocean, just doing a little reading and writing till the end of their days—that’s the dream, right? ‘What do you do all day?’ ‘Some reading, a little writing.’ Sounds idyllic, right? And yet school sucks. Everybody hates it. What’s the difference? ’Rithmetic! It’s time somebody put their finger on this fucking obvious thing. "
46 " slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place. "
47 " And good luck to you, tortoise,” whispered the hare, leaning in close. “And just so you know—nobody knows this, and if you tell anyone I said it, I’ll deny it—but I’m not really a hare. I’m a rabbit.” This wasn’t true—the hare just said it to fuck with him. "
48 " Do you think Johnny Depp should have driven his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death? Why or why not? "
49 " Discussion question: Do you think Julie should fuck the warlord? Why or why not? "
50 " If you love something, let it go. If you don’t love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares. "
51 " Do you think discussion questions can be unfairly leading sometimes? Why? • Who are we supposed to be discussing these questions with? • Do you normally have discussions in response to a question that was posed by a person not participating in the discussion? Why or why not? "
52 " It feels like the world is made of music, and you are the world. "
53 " he seemed to be blazing outside the lines of his own body, as if he were drawn in crayon by an excited five-year-old; "
54 " YO SOY SAUCE! CÓMPRAME! "
55 " The harm, besides those hours that actually do matter when you barely have one night off every couple of weeks, is the little mark you get on you every time you open up a door to a hope and then close it fast in disappointment. It leaves a nick, or a dent, and those nicks and dents are not invisible. I used to see them all the time. "
56 "  Kindness Among Cakes CHILD: “Why does carrot cake have the best icing?” MOTHER: “Because it needs the best icing. "
57 " CHILD: “Why does carrot cake have the best icing?” MOTHER: “Because it needs the best icing. "
58 " pay him back, we really would have to do something "
59 " But you can’t see it, because to you everything is infinite. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite. And "
60 " wasn’t he approaching Ricardo Montalban? Probably because there were more interesting things in heaven than Ricardo Montalban. "